Oak Ridge woman beaten, boyfriend charged

Oak Ridge police officers arrested the boyfriend in connection to the beating of a Scarboro neighborhood woman on Saturday.

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By Beverly Majors

Oakridger - Oak Ridge, TN

By Beverly Majors

Posted Dec. 19, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Updated Dec 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM

By Beverly Majors

Posted Dec. 19, 2012 at 8:06 PM
Updated Dec 19, 2012 at 8:09 PM

Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Oak Ridge police officers arrested the boyfriend in connection to the beating of a Scarboro neighborhood woman on Saturday.

Officer Ben Haines arrested 26-year-old Gerald Dale Wells in the emergency room at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, where he “self-admitted” to a mental evaluation. He was later taken to the Anderson County jail, where he is being held on a $25,000 bond.

Court records indicate Wells admitted to the victim’s father he had beaten her during an argument.

The 41-year-old victim told police she and Wells got into an argument on Saturday night at her residence on Wilberforce Avenue. She told officers she had accused Wells of stealing her Xanax prescription, prompting the argument.

The victim said Wells head-butted her in the face, punched her in the abdomen, kicked her repeatedly while she was on the ground and choked her to the point of unconsciousness, records said.

She was treated in the emergency room for a broken nose, concussion, possible broken right eye socket, swollen neck, a fractured finger and multiple bruises.

Records give Wells' address as Athens but other reports said he and the victim had been living together for four months.

Wells is scheduled for a hearing in General Sessions Court on Thursday.